Parapsychology
An overview
Parapsychology is the field of investigation of certain so-called paranormal phenomena. A distinction is especially parapsychology experimental attempts to study these phenomena in the laboratory.
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Situation of scientific parapsychology: assessment and prospects
By Pascale Catala (psychologist and member of the IMI)
Originally published in "The Fortean Gazette" in 2002, this article seeks to provide a brief summary of scientific parapsychology, by reviewing its history, its results, its controversies, while trying to clarify its position and its specificity within the context of "Paranormal".Particular attention is paid to the situation in France.
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Parapsychology: Fact or Fiction?
If you are referring to the television series "Sea of Souls" researchers of parapsychology unit at Edinburgh University, they may throw you a black look. That inspired some of this fantastic series of the BBC, they resent being represented as well as "ghost-buster."
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Debate on telepathy between Rupert Sheldrake and Lewis Wolpert
Debate chaired by Edward Nugee, January 15, 2004, London
The famous science journal Nature reported it some months ago, a debate on telepathy held Jan. 15 at the Royal Society of Arts, London. Before an audience of about 200 people, intervened: Rupert Sheldrake, as counsel for the reality of the phenomenon, the author of several books featuring practical experiences often simple and ingenious (including the feeling of being watched, on guess who made the call on the phone, on the attidude of the dog or cat when the master comes home from work, etc..) and Lewis Wolpert, as a skeptic, a biologist at University College London and the famous popularizerUK. Here is the French translation of this debate.
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there is it sixth sense?
By Dean Radin and Ray Hyman
What is the role of sixth sense in the development of intuitions? How the insights they occur? How science is she compared to psi phenomena? Have you ever had a hunch, an instinct or intuition? Dean Radin, PhD and parapsychologist, claims that certain sensations may predict the future. Ray Hyman, Ph.D. in psychology, too, is not certain. A summary in French of an article originally published in Psychology Today, which offers an interesting discussion around the recent experiences in the field of presentiment.
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Make the study of psi a science
The experiments on extrasensory perception are unusual, but the method used for the study is rigorous, even if the results are variable.
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Research on extrasensory perception and controversial interpretations: research on the ganzfeld
Psychologists who study telepathy rejoiced in 1994 when a study published in a scientific journal seemed to confirm the existence of extrasensory perception, also known as psi perceptions. But further analysis of new research using the same protocol left thinking that this was rejoicing may be premature.
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Perspective of scientific parapsychology and social reality
By Pascale Catala (psychologist and member of the IMI)
Throughout history there has been some strange events where people seemed to have information that would have been impossible to acquire the usual means (eg the five senses), and could even relate to the future. Parapsychologists scientists have identified during the twentieth century tens of thousands of cases of this sort.
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Psychics, Science and Society
By Yves Lignon
Yves Lignon is a member of the Department of Mathematics, University Mirail in Toulouse, editor of the Journal of Parapsychology French, founder of GEEPP-Parapsychology Laboratory of Toulouse. This article focuses on the failure of our society to the problem of clairvoyance, particularly through its crooks.
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Interview with Dr. Hubert Larcher
By Eric Raulet
Hubert Larcher, former Director of the International Psychic Institute, has agreed to answer questions from Eric Raulet. With his experience, and the place he held for many years in the heart of investigations on psychic experiences, he gives us here a few thoughts on the subject.
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Introduction of Dean Radin's book, "consciousness invisible"
By Dean Radin
Dean Radin, Ph.D. in psychology, engineering, is considered one of the best world specialists in the field of experimental parapsychology. He heads the "Consciousness Research Laboratory" at the University of Nevada. He also worked for many years in the Department of Psychology, Princeton University, the laboratories of AT & T and Bell, as well as the U.S. government. Here is the introduction of his book "invisible consciousness" (Ed. du Chatelet Press, 2000)
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The experience of the empty chair
The minutes of experience with Gerard Croiset
Here are presented here one of the most famous experiments concerning scientific experimentation on clairvoyance. We draw this presentation of an interesting book that we owe to Jean-Michel Grandsire "Aime Michel or the quest for superhuman" (Michel Picard, 2000).
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Parapsychology: When myth and reality tend to join
Roundtable moderated by Gregory Gutierrez and Eric Raulet, with Yves Lignon, and Mario Jacques Louys Varvoglis
Parapsychology, claiming submit the "paranormal" phenomena in a scientific methodology, is certainly one of the most controversial in this field. Its longevity makes it both an essential representative of the unexplained, but also a weak link as its progress since its birth seem poor.
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Psychic experiences: psychokinesis
To learn more about psychokinesis ...
Can be defined simply as "psychokinesis" by the influence that exercise the mind over matter. A notion that appeals to many novels or science fiction movies and skeptical many of our contemporaries. However, as in other fields of research, rigorous studies have been performed worldwide.
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A model investigation: Charles Richet
By Eric Raulet
Charles Richet received the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1913. This eminent scientist wrote a large work entitled "Treaty of psychic" book now difficult to obtain, and we owe to Dr. Hubert Larcher. The psychic was defined by C. Richet in these terms: "a science whose object of mechanical phenomena or psychological, caused by forces that seem intelligent or unknown powers latent in human intelligence."
An overview
Parapsychology is the field of investigation of certain so-called paranormal phenomena. A distinction is especially parapsychology experimental attempts to study these phenomena in the laboratory.
____________
Situation of scientific parapsychology: assessment and prospects
By Pascale Catala (psychologist and member of the IMI)
Originally published in "The Fortean Gazette" in 2002, this article seeks to provide a brief summary of scientific parapsychology, by reviewing its history, its results, its controversies, while trying to clarify its position and its specificity within the context of "Paranormal".Particular attention is paid to the situation in France.
____________
Parapsychology: Fact or Fiction?
If you are referring to the television series "Sea of Souls" researchers of parapsychology unit at Edinburgh University, they may throw you a black look. That inspired some of this fantastic series of the BBC, they resent being represented as well as "ghost-buster."
____________
Debate on telepathy between Rupert Sheldrake and Lewis Wolpert
Debate chaired by Edward Nugee, January 15, 2004, London
The famous science journal Nature reported it some months ago, a debate on telepathy held Jan. 15 at the Royal Society of Arts, London. Before an audience of about 200 people, intervened: Rupert Sheldrake, as counsel for the reality of the phenomenon, the author of several books featuring practical experiences often simple and ingenious (including the feeling of being watched, on guess who made the call on the phone, on the attidude of the dog or cat when the master comes home from work, etc..) and Lewis Wolpert, as a skeptic, a biologist at University College London and the famous popularizerUK. Here is the French translation of this debate.
____________
there is it sixth sense?
By Dean Radin and Ray Hyman
What is the role of sixth sense in the development of intuitions? How the insights they occur? How science is she compared to psi phenomena? Have you ever had a hunch, an instinct or intuition? Dean Radin, PhD and parapsychologist, claims that certain sensations may predict the future. Ray Hyman, Ph.D. in psychology, too, is not certain. A summary in French of an article originally published in Psychology Today, which offers an interesting discussion around the recent experiences in the field of presentiment.
____________
Make the study of psi a science
The experiments on extrasensory perception are unusual, but the method used for the study is rigorous, even if the results are variable.
____________
Research on extrasensory perception and controversial interpretations: research on the ganzfeld
Psychologists who study telepathy rejoiced in 1994 when a study published in a scientific journal seemed to confirm the existence of extrasensory perception, also known as psi perceptions. But further analysis of new research using the same protocol left thinking that this was rejoicing may be premature.
____________
Perspective of scientific parapsychology and social reality
By Pascale Catala (psychologist and member of the IMI)
Throughout history there has been some strange events where people seemed to have information that would have been impossible to acquire the usual means (eg the five senses), and could even relate to the future. Parapsychologists scientists have identified during the twentieth century tens of thousands of cases of this sort.
____________
Psychics, Science and Society
By Yves Lignon
Yves Lignon is a member of the Department of Mathematics, University Mirail in Toulouse, editor of the Journal of Parapsychology French, founder of GEEPP-Parapsychology Laboratory of Toulouse. This article focuses on the failure of our society to the problem of clairvoyance, particularly through its crooks.
____________
Interview with Dr. Hubert Larcher
By Eric Raulet
Hubert Larcher, former Director of the International Psychic Institute, has agreed to answer questions from Eric Raulet. With his experience, and the place he held for many years in the heart of investigations on psychic experiences, he gives us here a few thoughts on the subject.
____________
Introduction of Dean Radin's book, "consciousness invisible"
By Dean Radin
Dean Radin, Ph.D. in psychology, engineering, is considered one of the best world specialists in the field of experimental parapsychology. He heads the "Consciousness Research Laboratory" at the University of Nevada. He also worked for many years in the Department of Psychology, Princeton University, the laboratories of AT & T and Bell, as well as the U.S. government. Here is the introduction of his book "invisible consciousness" (Ed. du Chatelet Press, 2000)
____________
The experience of the empty chair
The minutes of experience with Gerard Croiset
Here are presented here one of the most famous experiments concerning scientific experimentation on clairvoyance. We draw this presentation of an interesting book that we owe to Jean-Michel Grandsire "Aime Michel or the quest for superhuman" (Michel Picard, 2000).
____________
Parapsychology: When myth and reality tend to join
Roundtable moderated by Gregory Gutierrez and Eric Raulet, with Yves Lignon, and Mario Jacques Louys Varvoglis
Parapsychology, claiming submit the "paranormal" phenomena in a scientific methodology, is certainly one of the most controversial in this field. Its longevity makes it both an essential representative of the unexplained, but also a weak link as its progress since its birth seem poor.
____________
Psychic experiences: psychokinesis
To learn more about psychokinesis ...
Can be defined simply as "psychokinesis" by the influence that exercise the mind over matter. A notion that appeals to many novels or science fiction movies and skeptical many of our contemporaries. However, as in other fields of research, rigorous studies have been performed worldwide.
____________
A model investigation: Charles Richet
By Eric Raulet
Charles Richet received the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1913. This eminent scientist wrote a large work entitled "Treaty of psychic" book now difficult to obtain, and we owe to Dr. Hubert Larcher. The psychic was defined by C. Richet in these terms: "a science whose object of mechanical phenomena or psychological, caused by forces that seem intelligent or unknown powers latent in human intelligence."
